Quotes About Interpretation

For myself I couldn't care less, but I have a lover. Not a partner, Susannah, or a friend or a significant euphemism, but the love of my life. And he believes. And I've watched him tie himself in knots, as he struggles to find a place for himself in texts that were written thousands of years ago, with the deliberate aim of excluding him.

All religions are beautiful in the story, as you say. It's when they're put into practice that they grow ugly.

Wars in history invariably become wars of history.

The investigator is an interpreter (second order) of the interpretations people have already given to their lives (first order).

the great thing about graphic design is that it is almost always about something else.

It was so avant-garde that the fire alarm sounded for a good few minutes before the audience slowly began to realise that it wasn't part of the performance.

I hear noises coming from his mouth but they don't sound like words," Daphne said.

Offense is in the mind of the offended.

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'

I was cast as a drunkard, and at my first rehearsal I came staggering onto the stage, then swayed about a bit. The director held up his hand. "Stop. What are you doing, Michael?" "I'm drunk in this scene," I explained, failing to hide my irritation that it had not been apparent.

She'd spent enough time trying to read the tea leaves of his heart.

I could say she looks like da Vinci's "Lady with Ermine" if there had ever been such a thing.

Literal interpretation without context is not only dangerous but contrary to what the Bible teaches.

He was struck by the sensation she'd made it happen in some way, that his life was simply a story the old woman was making up in her head.

They're convinced that the more conservative you are the more orthodox you are. They're more Catholic than the Pope.

You ask why God permits evil", Pawel said. "I do not know the answer to this. There are arguments one could make to explain it, but they always lack something—something elusive that may be far beyond our ability to comprehend. Would we misinterpret it, even if we could see? All attempts to understand evil fail in the end.

One of the things that haunts me as an artist is the way we project so much onto the world. I'm down on my luck, and the world looks a wretched place. I'm feeling prosperous, so I think the whole international scene is too. I'm unhappy, so I look around and all I see is unhappiness. I buy a certain brand of car, and suddenly I notice them everywhere. Or I'm in love and all I see is love, the whole world in love.

Had simply everyone rewritten history to suit his prejudices? Was most of it, perhaps all of it, a myth? If so, what was real?

To a person with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

it's wise to negotiate success. It's well worth investing time in this critical relationship up front, because your new boss sets your benchmarks, interprets your actions for other key players, and controls access to resources you need.

To succeed as Michael did with a new boss, it's wise to negotiate success. It's well worth investing time in this critical relationship up front, because your new boss sets your benchmarks, interprets your actions for other key players, and controls access to resources you need. He will have more impact than any other individual on how quickly you reach the break-even point, and on your eventual success or failure.

I am quite happy for people to disagree with me on a book. If I say it is a 5 star read and you don't, you just failed to read it right. ;-)

Those who still think that listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

He pilfered a copy of Ulysses, but it was possibly the one book he did not finish. 'What's the point of it? I suspect it was a bit of a joke by Joyce. He just kept his mouth shut as people read into it more then there was. Pseudo-intellectuals love to drop the name Ulysses as their favorite book. I refused to be intellectually bullied into finishing it.